Crosby/Textor
Crosby/Textor are a Canberra, Australia based market research and communications company closely aligned with the conservative Liberal Party of Australia. The company was created in 2003 by former Australian Liberal Party federal director Lynton Crosby and former Liberal Party pollster Mark Textor.
Their website states that the company offers "high-level strategic advice, based on opinion research, to clients who need to run campaigns targeted at various stakeholders – such as customers, voters or politicians". [1]
Crosby/Textor operates in both Australia and the UK, and has formed a partnership to advise Wirthlin Worldwide clients in the Australasian region.
Following their successful campaign to get conservative Australian Prime Minister John Howard re-elected in October 2004, Lynton Crosby was appointed to head the British Conservative Party's election campaign while Mark Textor advised the British Conservative Party leader, Michael Howard, in the run up to the May 2005 general election.[2]
Clients
- Liberal Party of Australia
- Conservative Party of the UK
- Channel Seven (Australia) [3]
Personnel
- Lynton Crosby
- Mark Textor
- Jacquie Corbett (former Liberal Party staffer) [4]
- Mark Domitrak (former Liberal Party staffer) [5]
- Kate Schulze (former spin doctor for Nick Minchin, then the National Farmers Federation, then Parker & Partners). Married to Channel Nine political reporter Nigel Blunden. [6]
Other SourceWatch resources
Contact details
Suite 7, Level 2 Engineering House
11 National Circuit,
Barton, Canberra
Australia
Postal address: PO Box 3632
Manuka ACT 2603
Australia
Tel (61-2) 6253 6777
Fax (61-2) 6253 6799
E-mail: info@crosbytextor.com
Web: http://www.crosbytextor.com
External links
- Mark Skulley, "Discretion a virtue for PM's pollster", Australian Financial Review, October 8, 2004.
- David Fickling, "Marginals are the key to victory", The Guardian (UK), November 18, 2004.
- Peter Fray, "British Labour frets as polling's dark prince advises the Tories", Sydney Morning Herald, November 22 2004.
- Francis Elliott, "Revealed: Tory adviser accused of 'dirty tricks'", Independent, 21 November 2004.
- Lenore Taylor, "Xstrata cries foul over bid 'campaign'", Australian Financial Review, December 18, 2004.
- Angus Grigg (ed), "Crosby Textor to tap new constituencies", Australian Financial Review, July 15, 2005.
- "Aussies 'meddling in NZ campaign'", Sydney Morning Herald, September 13, 2005.
- Nicholas Watt, "The Guardian profile: Lynton Crosby", The Guardian, January 28 2005
- Oonagh Blackman & Bob Roberts "Howard the Exploiter",The Daily Mirror, March 22 2005
- Stephen Brook, "Who can you call at crunch time?", The Australian, 19 June 2003
